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GEORGE MERTEL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PINWI-IEEL NOVELTY.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patentcd Oct. 28, 1910.

Application filed November 27, 1918. Serial No. 264,368.

T 0 all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MERTEL, a citizen of the United States, and aresdent of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved PinwheelNovelty, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved pin wheelnovelty arranged to attractively display the national flag or othersimilar patriotic emblems or devices. Another object is to permit ofreadily attaching the novelty to a coat, hat or other article of wear,or to a stick or other supporting device, to expose the pin wheelnovelty to the action of the wind with a view to rotate the pin wheel inthe usual manner.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in

which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views.

Figure 1 is a face view of the pin wheel novelty;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a cross section ofthe wheel. The propeller or pin wheel 10 is mounted to turn on ahorizontally disposed pivot 11 held on a support or frame 12 adapted tobe attached to a coat, vest, hat or other artlcle of personal wear. Forthis purpose the pivot 11 is preferably extended at the rear of thesupport to form a downwardly extending attaching pin 13, but I do notlimit myself to this particular means for fastening the pin wheelnovelty to a garment, stick or other device. The propeller or pin wheel10 is provided with propeller blades set at an angle to the axis of thewheel to cause the latter to turn on the wind striking the wheel; One ofthe blades is over-balanced relative to the remaining blades and forthis purpose the back of this overbalanced blade is provided with aweight 15 and hence when the wheel comes to a standstill thisoverbalanced blade is in lowermost position, as indicated in thedrawings. The overbalanced blade is provided on its face with anornamentation 16,

preferably in the form of a United States flag, and a similar faceornamentation 17 is arranged on the blade diametrically opposite theoverbalanced blade so that when the pin wheel 10 comes to a stop theUnited States fiags 16 and 17 are displayed at the bottom and top of thepin wheel. The remaining blades are provided with face ornamentations18, such as the flags of 'the Allies, for instance, but it is expresslyunderstood that I do not limit myself to the flag ornamentations asother face ornamentations, such as portraits or other emblems, may beused, but the face ornamentations 16 and 17 of the overbalanced bladeand the one diametrically opposite are similar, while the faceornamentations 18 of the remaining blades are dissimilar.

In order to enhance the display effect, use is made of a pointer 20,preferably in the form of a hand, and forming a turnedu portion of thelower end of the support 12, the pointer being at the bottom of thewheel 10 so as to point directly to the United States flag 16 as soon asthe pin wheel comes to a rest as above explained. The two similar faceornamentations 16 and 17 are used on diametrically opposite blades, ofwhich one is overbalanced so that in case the overbalanced blade shouldcome to a stop when in uppermost position then the pointer 20 stillpoints at the face ornamentation 17 representing the United States flag.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. As an article of manufacture, a pin wheel novelty,comprising a support having attaching means on its back and a pin wheelmounted to turn on the support, the pin wheel having blades of which oneis overbalanced relative to the other blade, the overbalanced blade andthe one diametrically opposite having similar face ornamentationsproduced thereon and the remaining blades having dissimilar faceornamentations.

2. As an article of manufacture, a pin wheel `novelty, comprising asupport provided with means for attaching the novelty to an article ofwear, a pin wheel mounted to turn on the said support and provided withblades having one of the blades being over-balanced relative to theother blades, the said overbalanced blade and the one diametrcallyopface ornamentations,

posite the same having their face ornamentations similar and the otherblades their fae ornamentations dissiinilar, and a pointer lntegral withthe support at the b0tits upper and lower ends bent and extend- Gopiesof this patent may be obtained for in toward each other, the lower bentend belng in the form of a pointer, a pivot in the upper bent endextended to the back of the frame to form an attaching pin, and a pinWheel mounted on the pivot and having ornahaving a pin having the bladesbeing weighted.

GEORGE MERTEL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington,D. 0.

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